This chapter reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the concept of credibility and
its areas of application relevant to information science and technology, encompassing …

Reviews studies on the relationship between task performance and information searching
by end-users, focusing on information searching in electronic environments and information …

Content analysis is a highly flexible research method that has been widely used in library
and information science (LIS) studies with varying research goals and objectives. The …

In the Web, making judgments of information quality and authority is a difficult task for most
users because overall, there is no quality control mechanism. This study examines the …

Abstract “Information behavior” is the currently preferred term used to describe the many
ways in which human beings interact with information, in particular, the ways in which …

Citation recommendation describes the task of recommending citations for a given text. Due
to the overload of published scientific works in recent years on the one hand, and the need …

This paper is an emic, interview-based study of computer scientists' and sociologists'
accounts of the functions of citations in their writing. Twelve informants took part in the …

Today information‐intensive work tasks in professional settings involve highly dynamic
information utilization in which information seeking and searching tasks are taking a more …

All is flux.—Plato on Knowledge in the Theaetetus (about 369 BC) Relevance is a, if not
even the, key notion in information science in general and information retrieval in particular …

Abstract John Swales's 1986 article 'Citation analysis and discourse analysis' was written by
a discourse analyst to introduce citation research from other fields, mainly sociology of …